I’m changing jobs, moving home and I really want an Aston Martin Vanquish.

I was born here, and now we’re moving to the Countryside (or further into Essex as it’s otherwise known). Big move. Although I love my current home completely I am also totally over excited about moving, and am currently window-shopping for bookcases (I envisage an entire wall covered in a bookcase with room for telly) – like this jobbie: http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/10103093 Not to mention the excitingness that is vegetable plot planning.

Had a bit of a splurge yesterday. Walked into Woolies randomly following Mum, and walked out with a Wii. Now I have Wii Elbow. Good fun though – and I hope to get Wii Fit for my birthday

Went out to dinner last night in the oldest free house in England – following my “you must try everything at least once” motto I had devilled kidneys for starter and liver and bacon for main, with Eton Mess for pud. It was ok – I probably wouldn’t bother next time – it was all a bit too heavy (the Eton Mess was lovely though). However for some reason shortly after I went to bed (at 4am) I was very sick! And then I was fine. Very bizarre!

Last day of my last holiday today – am feeling suitably glum at the prospect of not only 2 1/2 months of uninterrupted work ahead of me but also of being increasingly used for slave labour. Dunno why my bosses in general seem to feel that if you are leaving that means you are open for exploitation. 79 days to go, wishing my life away yet again.

I had a nice day today. I visited AnM out in the wilds of Essex, where we drove around a lot in the sunshine, went to a fish restaurant in Mersea that was sublime. It only served seafood – literally; it was bring-your-own-bread-and-drink (and butter, though they forgot to tell us that bit) and most of it was fresh caught – really good! We had crab, cockles, prawns, crevettes, green-lipped mussels, more prawns, smoked mackerel and salmon, razor clams, scallops, raw oysters and grilled oysters with cheese. Suffice to say, we did not eat it all, though I do hope to use the leftovers in something (lord only knows what). Oddly though we did manage to move on to a tea room for tea and cakes… that must be the Second Stomach Effect – one for each food type. Very lovely day. Marred slightly by having further arguments with the Infernal Net people (we’ve been without net for several days now and without adequate customer service for about the same length of time. But evidently partially resolved since I am typing this, ignoring the fact that we cannot use cable TV and net at the same time currently.

Typing this is very difficult, still got a Fee shaped hole wandering around the house. But at some point there has to be a Next post. And it might as well be one about fish. And cheese. I think she’d appreciate that.

Especially the cheese.